The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-06-18
DYSPEPSIA'S GRIP.
THE HOLD THE DISEASE HAS UPON
THE AVERAGE NEW WORKER.

l6G HOGO tt1e DISEASE HAS UPON
THE AVERAGE NEW WORKER,
A Physician Says Hasty Lunches arc the
Root OF tho Evil-\Nhat the Hungry
Gothamitc Throws Into His stomach.
An Attack OF Lunch House.
"Most people have an idea that the reason
why there is So much dyspepsia in New York
Is because there is something tho matter with
the air i'll the city or the Croton water, or tho
climate or something like that" said an cx-
rerienced physician who was approached by
q reporter OH the subject. "Thcre NAV hc
something i'll all that. The climate is pretty
trying for people of weak constitutions. but
not more SO than tho climates of some other
countries where dyspepsia is as little known
rs the ancient plague is here. The real trouble
is that people don't take time to cat, and cat
i'll tho wrong way. Many man thinks he is
dying with consumption or heart disease, or
Brisht's disease, or something like that, when
as matter of fact nothing ails himcxccpt an
attack of lunch house."
Lunch housc.'
"Yes, sir, lunch house. Lunch houses mako
moro imaginary diseases than all other causes
together. Thousands of men think they have
malaria i'll their system and rush away to the
mountains or take IL sea voyage, and fill their
bodies full Of quininc if they can't tlo any
thing else, when all that ais them is tho
lunch house. Lunch houses cause more of
what is called malaria in New York than all
the bad sewage, bad us that is. don't be-
lieve there is any moro malaria around now
than there was thirty years ago, when there
wasn't an intcligcntly constructed sewer in
TIL" United States. If people would only have
as much sense about eating us they had then
there wouldn't bc any complaint about ma
laria or dyspepsia either.
$50 show you what mean, go into any of
the big lunch houses down town about noon.
and what doy you see? There is long coun-
ter on each >i'lc OF the room, and in front of
each counter, rcrchrd onstools in nncomfoyt-
able, stoop sl"uldrrrl positions, crowded in
together like licrrings in II hox, is Il long limo
of men. They eat-no, gorge is n better word
-,,s fast as they can
And what is it that they throw into their
stonachs: Fork and beans, CLANS, oyster
pics, beef II III mode, fried potatoes, fried
ham and eggs, fried hash, fried cakos-;,rcasc,
spice, pepper and indigcstil!r meat On thu,
they pile li"t minre pie with IL crust like sole
leather am! pour over tl" whole mass Il cup of
S''a''iin:S r"'re strong enough To raise the
dead. Ih'n they just stop long enough to
Eight cigar, which will paraly2r the action
of the stomach on all this stuff, and holt back
to- business with Il load under their shirt
fronts like lead. The hcalthicst man in the
world couldn't stand that sort uf n strain very
long, if it were combined, rs il alwa,., is in /,
big city like New York, with confinement in
close room,ant very likely stopping posi-
tion over IL desk.
"lhats all true enough, but where docs the
malaria come in."
Now, just wait Il minute; I'm coming to
that presently. The liver is the first organ in
tho body that gives out under the terrific
strain. 1t gets tired and refuses to do its
work. Pretty soon the man feels lassitu,lc
and II queer pain in his joints. Then hc has
headaches and fcvcrs, and gets SO lie doesn't
care rap whether he lives or dies. He puts
out his tongue ono day before n looking glass,
and it is apparently coated half M inch
thick with yellow furZr Tint settles it.. He
is perfectly sure ho has got malaria. Like n,
not he gets his plumber To go all over The
house and roll up Il runouS hill looking fol
"Sn'l pa"H. Ntiy IhcIJ nc WtnlS lo sell Illt
place and move out to Ringwonl, or live in /,
balloon, while hc keeps his head ringing for /;
month at a timo with quinnc Then ho be
gins to read up on his symptoms in hcaltl
books, and pretty soon he is certain that hi.
heart is affected, or his liver is being con
sumcd, or there arc inlubitablc evidences of
lmrcsis about him. The chances arc, if he
isn't rescued and taken out of the terrible in
ilucnccs of that lunch house llc will yet to bc
II hypocliondriac and health crank of tho
most ntolcrablc sort, and will go around
drinking hot water and reading lectures to
his fricnds"n tho advantages of salt packs and
steaming foot baths and liver pads. He will
get more crazy notions about hours of getting
upnnd going to bed and such things than you
can count in II week, and lie will lead his
family Il life that will make them think of
suicide with satisfaction. About that time
the lunch house is having its perfect work.
"I'he whole fashion of midday eating il,
New York ought to bc reformed If men will
persist in making their business hours so long
that they have to interrupt them to cat, they
should take at least al hour to it. They
should 30 to some quiet resort and sit down
ut Il table like Christians, with some friends
with whom they can chat aud talk Then let
them eat very light nncl,--a small chop,
say, with piece of dry bread or somcthingo of
that sort, giving themselves plenty of time tG
mastirate and going away trie hungry. a
piece Of dry bread and an apple, or zwcibnch
and bunch of grapes is the best kind of Il
lunch for dysprptirs Let them allure all
made dishes, grease, gravy, pic and spice, and
drink nothing but light wines or water, and
there won't be any malaria to speak of in this
climate. But if the present stutc of things
goes on much longer tli" next generation will
not only he a race of dyspcptirs-wc'rc that
nlrcady-hut n race of thin chcstcd, round
shoul.lcrrl, nervous iraschlc and weak
ivcrrd crnnks
"Of course the lunch house keepers are not
to blame. They have to offer wha; they ca,
sell. No doubt they would rather set forth
food that people can digest if they had any
choice in the matter It's the bad taste OF
their customers that makes the trouble."-
Boston Entlgct.